Yama-help, s.v.p.!

[Terry Beckingham]

Mark,

We can check it out on Monday. Maybe (just maybe) I can spot something.

Terry Beckingham

At 05:10 PM 1/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm guessing most everyone in this group can appreciate the difference
>between actually 'fixin sumthin' as opposed to making the symptoms
>disappear.
>
>You will then appreciate my 'dilemna of the day.'
>
>I had promised to make the phantom 'clicking' within the low-brass prof's
>1960's G-2 'go away,' sometime over the holiday season,
>
>The 'clicking' is not of the loose center-pin or hammerhead type, but rather
>like the "rep. spring  caught in a sticky, gunky slot, suddenly-breaks-free"
>type. You will get this typically the first time you play a note, after the
>piano has sat un-played for awhile. However, once the note has been played
>that first time (and clicked), it will likely not click again that day, no
>matter how often it is played.
>
>This is why I thought rep.springs,.. sound like I'm on the right track, so
>far?
>
>In my mind, it would be as simple as polishing the springs, then cleaning
>and re-graphiting the spring slots.
>
>Only one problem, (in words I once heard uttered by a small-town cafeteria
>waitress, with singular small-town charm); "IT DON'T GOT NONE!"
>
>No repetition spring slots that is (not sauerkraut, as I had inquired of the
>reuben sandwich I was attempting to order), the springs are of the set-screw
>adjustment type and the hook is captured by a cloth loop. Schwander style, I
>believe (the wippens, not the sandwich).
>
>In any case, I repaired any clicks I could find; hammer-heads, etc., even
>two rep. springs where the hook was so long as to strike the base of the
>wippen and make a click. Sadly though these were not the 'clicks' I was
>after.
>
>Then, as I lowered the shanks to rest after tefloning the knuckles, the
>"clicks" started, spontaneously, one here, one there, etc. (actually more
>like 'ticks' than 'clicks')
>
>It has to be the rep. springs, doesn't it? But what are they clicking from;
>
>coils overlapping?
>
>how the adjustment screw bears against the spring?
>
>The springs don't seem over-tensioned, and the hammer-flange pinning seems
>quite free.
>
>Anyone encountered this before, I welcome your input.
>
>many thanks,
>Mark Cramer,
>Brandon University
>
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